Victor Davis Hanson
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2,022 appearances
16 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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Well, they always ask. They don't say where it's come from. Why doesn't he say this? We need $40 billion of federal money. And the reason we need it is I was running a $75 billion deficit, even though I raised taxes to 13.3, the highest in the nation, because I was doing things like putting $50 million in a legal fund to sue you, Donald Trump. who I want to give us $40 billion.
Or I gave $500 million for illegal alien special health fund during COVID. Or I gave another $30 million for immigrant rights legal suits. So all of that stuff. And then he hates Trump. And then he's asking for $40 billion. I think Trump will just say, why don't you go sell off high-speed rail to somebody? And then he never says this. They just demonized Elon. Why wouldn't he just say this?
I'm Elon Musk's governor. I don't have enough funds to create sewage, water, infrastructure to allow this stuff to get rebooted. However, I need $40 billion, but I will help you find it. Now, Elon... How much can you find me $40 billion in USAID? Can we go into the C.C. Abrams stash and give me $500 million? Can I go into the Pentagon? I hear you're getting rid of $68 billion in DEI.
Can I have $8 billion there? Why does he just talk like that? But instead, it's gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. And I hate you. Gimme, I hate you. Gimme. It's like a petulant teenager, you know, to her parent or something.
It's two things drive California, you know, when you think about it. It's left wing, coastal, boutique politics. And by that is D.I. and radical environmentalism and then illegal immigration. And the Democratic Party feels that they flipped California from the Reagan, Dick Mason, Pete Wilson, Schwarzenegger era by allowing us each year to have half of all of the illegal aliens that came.
The only thing that's ironic about this, Jack, is that we have 45 to 50 percent of the population declares themselves Hispanic. But after 30 or 40 years, many Hispanics, I think the majority are middle class now, and they're looking at their payroll checks and they're thinking, my God. I don't have anything left. It's California, 10, 12, 13. I think it hits you at $60,000. It's 10%.
Then they look at the sales tax. Then they say things to me like this. Well, why doesn't other people pay taxes? I said, like who? Well, look at all these guys on the corner. They're selling stuff. They don't pay taxes. I said, yeah, I know they don't. We have the largest black market economy in the country.
So what I'm getting at is that constituency that the Democratic Party created has matured, and now they are on the other end. They're not necessarily the recipients of the most generous welfare state. They are the payers. They have to pay for it. And they are saying no more. I do not want to pay for this. I can barely make it. Housing is so expensive. Insurance is expensive. Gas is expensive.
I do not want to fly in 700 people a night from Oaxaca into Fresno Airport. I just can't afford it. That's a switch. It's not the majority yet, but it's getting there. Well, let us pray.
Well, thank you.
Yes.
My eyes are half closed because I got home yesterday and I figured that from my farm to get to the airport, to get to a connection, to get to the East Coast, And back in five days, that trip was 26 hours of traveling.
Yeah.
No, but I'll just finish with something that really bothers me besides a lot of the other stuff is when people come up. And they want you to switch seats. You know what I mean? So if you want to use the restroom or you want a view, you want the window. If you want a view, put your head over. Or if you have to use a restroom or you want to get up, you have the aisle.
And then somebody comes up to you and says, you know... I have a grandparent over there, and could you just give up your seat? And I was watching somebody do that to another person, and then I read a lot of stories that people are getting really tired of that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If I was going to go on a ramp, I would say that your group number means nothing now. You see people just head away.
That's number one. Number two, your overhead bin capacity is not correlated with your seat. When people board late or... And they walk down the aisle, they just put their stuff over any, the first one they find, whether it's in business class or the first rows, that's bad.
Number three, and I did this from Palm Beach, I'm not making fun of people from Palm Beach, but the number of wheelchairs that are used to board the plane is not in direct correlation with the number of wheelchairs to disembark.
So, again, there must be a spa-like condition, health waters or something on that plane because people board first, get their overhead space, and then they sprint off when they land. It's the proximity to the heavenly choirs. Oh, I have one more complaint since I'm being Krabby Appleton from the old cartoon days.
I'm not Tom Terrific, but I am Krabby Appleton, and that is... Air travel has really turned into the Greyhound bus, and that's a slur to the Greyhound bus days. What I mean by that is when you go on some of the people who are dressed, it looks like a slob-a-rama. I mean, there's people with...
I mean, they don't have their sweatpants up so their posteriors are showing or they come in with some kind of weird socks as if they're shoes. And then they bring all of these smelly foods on. You know what I mean? They bring whole things. It's not like it used to be. There's no standards whatsoever. No, everybody breaks the rules. It's chaotic.
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